a modern miscellany var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9088134-2"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}Tumblr (3.0; @brokenbottleboy)http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/Jordan Mechner's blogging his journal from the development of the classic Prince Of Persia: I used...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254191613http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254191613Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktj9u5mVzT1qz9vfgo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Name In Vain Christmas cards by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.schudio.co.uk/blog">Chu </a></p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254156163http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254156163Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000 Literally minutes after Jedwood went last night, the Conservative Party (or at least Conservative...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254149392http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/254149392Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:50:00 +0000<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktgvutw9Y11qz9vfgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>George has been working hard on the laptop today.</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251982921http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251982921Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:16:02 +0000Cameron Crowe interviewed Led Zeppelin when he was 18 years old. Goddamn it, I was born to...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251867137http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251867137Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:25:00 +0000Mom: That's it, your sister said the 'f-word'. William: I think she said "feck". Mom: What's the...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251860030http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251860030Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:13:19 +0000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yMeSw00n3Ac&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yMeSw00n3Ac&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Spotted this a while back but forgot to post it. Glad to be reminded of it by…</p> <p><a href="http://jamesholland.tumblr.com/post/251855508/how-larry-cuba-made-the-death-star-graphics-out" target="_blank">jamesholland</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>How Larry Cuba made the Death Star graphics… out of wires and video tape, but most of all, patience.</p> </blockquote>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251856645http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251856645Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:06:52 +0000To tell the truth if you march me out of a building I’ll come back and burn it down one daynot...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251846755http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251846755Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:49:48 +0000Hell, I know some other band called their record Let It Be first but it’s just an average...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251789583http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251789583Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:55:00 +0000<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktfetkig8Z1qz9vfgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Can the <a href="http://www.trabant-nt.de/367/en/home.aspx" target="_blank">2009 Trabant Concept</a> take East Germany’s biggest joke where the Skoda has boldly gone before? And really why would anyone bother?</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251763823http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251763823Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:00:00 +0000<img src="http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktgdflPp1A1qz9vfgo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jason Lee’s American Icons deck: TV, Beer, Cigarettes, Guns + The Bible</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251752825http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251752825Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:38:09 +0000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QdPKD_eBmLc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QdPKD_eBmLc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>One more: Jamie Thomas skating to Creedence’s Fortunate Son.</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251740429http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251740429Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:15:12 +0000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WJ0yIxUCrzM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WJ0yIxUCrzM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Kicked Out Of Everywhere – Mark Gonzales</p> <p>I love the bit where his deck bumps into the old lady and she goes mad.</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251739118http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251739118Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:12:41 +0000<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktg9wx587D1qz9vfgo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ideas vs their enemies: Jesus vs The Romans | Yoko vs The Beatles | Titanic vs The Iceberg (via <a target="_blank" href="http://www.heavy-backpack.com/">Heavy Backpack</a>)</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251709504http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/251709504Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:22:09 +0000Having schlepped my way to several “social media” conference recently including...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250976904http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250976904Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:01 +0000<img src="http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktf0ehARa91qzn0deo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>In the shadow of the noose: LIFE Magazine photo taken as the death sentences were handed down at the Nuremberg Trials in October 1946. Such an arresting photo by Davie E. Scherman. I’d never seen this before.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://castoffcrown.tumblr.com/post/250970429/i12bent-this-ominous-photo-appeared-in-life" target="_blank">castoffcrown</a>:<a href="http://i12bent.tumblr.com/post/250896222/this-ominous-photo-appeared-in-life-magazine-in" target="_blank">i12bent</a>:</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250972462http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250972462Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:00 +0000On Twitter we fire hose our thoughts, opinions and daily lives into the world. The very ease of the...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250962973http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/250962973Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:26:00 +0000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/35Y7YDai1uo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/35Y7YDai1uo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Guns + Gardens: a DIY show set during a zombie apocalypse. Useful and scary.</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/249570900http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/249570900Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:05:53 +0000<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BOm8vFFY_pc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BOm8vFFY_pc&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Germaine Greer vs a moron (1971)</p>http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/248857303http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/248857303Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:16:44 +0000I’ve always wondered why the cost per head of food for prisoners in the UK penal system is...http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/247131035http://brokenbottleboy.tumblr.com/post/247131035Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000